Smart Cards

Smart Card Handbook by Rankl Wolfgang, Wolfgang Effing (German version)
This timely handbook presents a state-of-the-art overview of the technology from fundamental information processing through design, manufacture and operation of smart card schemes. Aiming to enable the reader to design smart-card based systems, coverage spans architecture and operating systems, data transmission to and from the smart card, the command set, the implementation of security mechanisms and the function of smart card terminals. The author also considers the actual status of the appropriate European (CEN) and International (ISO) standards.

Smart Card Developer's Kit by Scott B. Guthery, Timothy M. Jurgensen
Smart Card Developer's Kit is designed to provide the practical information you need to design and build applications that incorporate smart cards. Using a combination of detailed exposition, technical reference summaries, and extended examples, this book familiarizes you with the unique strengths and capabilities of this emerging computer technology. (online web page)

Smarter Smartcards by Peter Hofland and Lana Janowski (February 1998)
Better processor and memory technologies, open APIs, and new OSes pave the way for multiple applications running on one smartcard.

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ISO7816 asynchronous smartcard information ISO7816 (Part 1-4)
  • ISO7816-1 which define the physical characteristics of the card.
  • ISO7816-2 which define dimension and contact position of the card.
  • ISO7816-3 which define the electical signals and transmission protocols.
  • ISO7816-4 which define the interindustry command for interchange.

    • Welcome to HIP Smartcard (You own it, you hack it!)

    A Collection of Smart Card urls organized by topic from JavaWorld magazine

    Infrastructure of Multi-Application Smart Card (in the concerns of access control) by CHAN, Siu-cheung Charles (August 17, 1997)
    An important issue in the smart card industry is the capability of the smart card, which makes the integration of multiple applications into a single smart card feasible. In the concerns of access control, this paper discusses different infrastructure of multiple application smart card, and tries to develop both procedural and technical mechanisms to implement such a system in the terms of data ownership and management, data directory configuration and partitioning, security and data sharing, and system application expansion, etc.
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